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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

I'm pretty sure I would have ordered this cake back in high school:

Yep, back in my teen glory days I was that lone female in the convention-going, calculus-loving, and occasionally kilt-wearing* crowd. We spent our spare time calculating the dimensional mass of the various Enterprises, learning useful terms in Klingon, and saying things like "I believe this calls for a colorful metaphor". It was awesome.

Seeing the ol' Enterprise D here in all her crookedly displayed glory brings it allll back. In fact, I think this cake is a metaphor for my formative years: it's awkward looking, slightly imbalanced, has large gaps of inactivity, and is easy to misunderstand ("prooper"?) - but despite all that, it still has a good heart (right over the 'i'- see it?).

You are incredibly awesome.. seriously.. I swear, if you weren't married, and I wasnt married, and one of us was a guy and I wasn't socially awkward and we lived in the same country, I would have totally hmm not ever get enough courage to talk to you hehe

It may not be the wreckiest wreck, but I'm glad you shared it for a couple reasons: number one, your always-enlightening commentary, and number 2, I have a great idea for my husband's birthday cake now!

Oh, this is wonderful. I turn 30 in two days, so this is the perfect birthday present.

My friends and I never went so far as to learn Klingon, but I did host a "How to Host a Mystery: Star Trek: Edition" for my 15th birthday. And my best friend wrapped a bedsheet around a cowboy had and made a pretty awesome Guinan, IMHO.

Oh, and we created an original Star Trek "fan fic" type show with a female captain that wound up being very close to what Voyager eventually wound up being.

Oh, and although the spacing is definitely gangly on the cake, I do need to defend the spelling of "prosper." I am almost certain that it's a cursive "s" there, and not "prooper."

Ah, a girl after my own heart. Sci-fi geek sugar lover! I have boy/girl twins, so I had lots of naming possibilities, but I resisted the temptation to be THAT parent. They did dress up as Luke and Leia for Halloween when they were 5 though.

As a girl who tried to get 1701-D for her license plate in high school, I too would have ordered this cake; but the Vulcan/Type A person in me would have been made nauseated by the crooked and badly aligned picture and writing.

No, no, no...I saw prooper at first too, even though I (too) knew what it was supposed to say. What P'tachk made this cake?Oh, and I think that the space above the writing is where you are supposed to put your Spock hand prints (Grauman Chinese-style).\\// Live Long and Prooper!

My friends and I ordered a cake similar to this one (only it was ice cream) for our friend Rick in high school. We were all in the same boat... a little ackward, and totally digging star trek. We even made our own movie version. LOL

If I'd recieved this cake when I was about 14, I would have died and gone to heaven. I didn't make with the Klingon so much, but did use my Technical Guide to the Enterprise D to make a scaled drawing overlain on a map of my town, just to see how big that old girl really was.

Sometimes looking at websites involving food make me hungry & I try to avoid them during peak snacking times. Cakewrecks, however rarely induces me to much. I appreciate that in a blog. Thank you so much for keeping the munchies away and injecting wit and sarcasm! A winning combination!

This is great! I too was a female trekkie, and would have totally ordered this cake back in the day. Actually, I would order it now probably, LOL! Still go to conventions, have all the movies and series on dvd, bookshelves full of the books. My son has all the ships (they make sounds!!)It's all good fun.

My daughter (age 16) has been a Trekkie since she was about 9. Has a soft spot for Reading Rainbow because of LeVar Burton. Gave her best (male) buddy a kilt for Christmas this year. Loves Calculus...and has this wacky sense of humor...

I see either Prooper or the infinity sign that another poster mentioned. Prosper I do not see...that is a very sloppy S.I don't think it matters whose third grade class the cake decorating lady was in. I think it matters that if you're going to be a "professional" cake decorator you should at least be able to make coherent letters that are above the quality of third grader.Is it just me or some of the anonymous posts lately getting very snippish?

Cake-loving geeky girl here too...I never learned Klingon, but I used to track all of the Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition. In fact, several of them fit with this cake, specifically "Always know what you're buying," and "Satisfaction is not guaranteed."

Anyway - I agree with the anonymous poster who is saddened by all the "generic" looking cakes being churned out. there was plenty of room to turn that blue border around the Enterprise picture into a television set or movie screen.

Ugh! Impostors, all of you! How can so many supposed Star Trek fans scrutinize this confectionary abomination and not point out that the 1701-D was from ST:TNG while the quote "Live long and prosper" was popularized by a character that (mostly) appeared in ST:TOS!?

To be a truly congruous cake, the picture should either be of the 1701 or 1701-A, or the message should be something like "Make it so."

Ah! Cake wrecks casual viewer...resistance is futile...you will be assimilated. (At least this is how I feel). I think my husband, the grown geek, would have perfered the green orion slave girl cake. Let me know if you find one of those.

I'm starting to see a whole "Wreck to Order" theme going on lately. Yesterday's sick theme cakes and today's enterprise look exactly like something that certain people would specifically ask their local baker to make. Heck, the Trekkies probably brought their favorite picture to the store and asked for the bright blue icing. But the rest of America will look at these cakes and say, "Wait; what?" Mind you, I LOVE seeing this kind of wreck. I think people are nifty each time I see one of these.

The only useful term I knew in Klingon was "Your ship is a garbage scow," and I can't remember how to say it anymore. BUT I do own the Klingon dictionary! Does that count?

We had just enough friends in our geek group to be the entire cast of TNG, including Dr. Polanski and Guinan. A black guy even played Geordi. The girl who played Troi had gorgeous, long curly brown hair, and she made communicator badges for all of us. The girl who played Dr. Crusher had bright red hair. I was Ensign Ro because I had dark hair and could be a real bitch. We bought a ST:TNG murder mystery game and we all dressed up in costume and went to a friend's house to play it. We also set up a bridge in another friend's living room, with a couch being the Captain, First Officer, and Counselor's chairs, and Laz-E-Boy recliners with TV trays for the comm stations.

Fyrefrog, I feel your pain. And if you wash your hands before touching the book, you are welcome to page through our first edition Star Fleet Technical Manual, complete with my husband's childhood signature on the front overleaf. (I almost cried when I saw that, but it was done long before we met.)

I'm sorry, but for the commenters complaining about "Live Long and Prosper" being a ST: ToS phrase, I hate to pull the Trekkie nerd card and say that it's not just a ToS phrase, it was used in all of the series at one point or another. It's a common Vulcan phrase and one of the most recognized phrases from that universe.

I am not nerdy enough to actually know Klingon (thought about it, but never followed through), but I know a guy who, at one Halloween party went as Arthur from HGTTG. The host of the party greeted him at the door in full Klingon regalia speaking the language. Without prior planning for this scenario, he pulls a Sweedish fish from his pocket, puts it in his ear, and instantaneously his friend switched to English mid sentence. Much more nerdcore than I am.

You aren't the only girl into these things... but I knew that about you when you referred to something as your "personal Kobayashi Maru." Only a true Trek geek would say that and take it as a given that she'd be understood.

I read it as prosper too. For my fellow ST fans... I found out yesterday that Majel Barrett Roddenberry passed away in December. The only actress to have been in all the versions of Star Trek: Number One in the pilot, Nurse Chapel in the original series, Mrs. Troi in ST: TNG and ST: DS9 and the computer voice in all the various series and movies. Rest in space with Gene, Majel.

There are lots of female Trekkies. There always have been. I'm an Original fan, my earliest memory is of a ST episode on tv so I think that counts!But the cake is very Wrecky, for all sorts of reasons which have been mentioned already. But I still like it.I'm known as the Borg Queen by my family. I prefer not to speak Klingon - Resistance is Futile!

I read "prosper," but it is, as noted, easily misunderstood. I'm a female star trek geek, raised on syndicated original trek, and grown on later treks (I idolized Data). I would have had no friends if it weren't for the male trek geeks in my school needing a default date to social events.

I actually married a guy so nerdy he couldn't even get into the fraternities at MIT.

I had a Star Trek communicator pin I wore throughout middle school and high school. And my family went to the Las Vegas Hilton's Star Trek Experience for Thanksgiving once. I also have a "Ferengi School of Business" window decal.

I would have fought a Denebian slime devil for this cake when I was in HS. Hell, I might still do it now. ;-)

And the most ridiculous thing is that if you're making a cake for a true Star Trek fan, this cake would be mocked. Those OCD fans like me would have a major problem that a quote from Spock, who was on the original Enterprise, is placed below a picture of the Enterprise D. Wrong ship, ding-dong mcgee!

Hehehe, I knew there was a reason I resonated with this blog so well! I wasn't exactly a typical 16-yo girl, either. My Sweet 16 had a ST: Voyager theme and my parents and I celebrated my 17th at the Star Trek Experience in Vegas.

I also still have a small scale statue of the Enterprise-D (about 6" x 6" x 8") carved out of solid brass sitting on my desk. One of my prized possessions. :)

Thought you'd like to see my STAR TREK cake. I am NOT a professional baker, but I did this for a shoot day for the STAR TREK: PHOENIX series. www.smartestgirlinthewest.com The cake's not perfect, but it's not crooked and I carved it by hand.

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